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...into each other's mouths. Officials arrested two men for allegedly trying to extort as much as $1 million for the couple's stolen wedding videos. Police say after Tito Moses and Steven Wortman failed to sell footage of the 2004 nuptials to the press, the men tried to ransom it to officers posing as Anthony's associates. The singer-actors are currently filming a biopic of salsa star Hector Lavoe. Unfortunately, authorities could do nothing about Lopez's other incriminating video: her 2003 film Gigli...
...several thousand dollars for freedom, but his was one of many payoffs. On the average day, 10 kidnappings occur; 20 on Christmas weekend alone. Security experts estimate that the criminals net $100,000 a day. One of the country's most charismatic radio DJs was kidnapped last week. The ransom demand: $2 million...
...Batuta. A few days later, after the pirates took Mahalingam and his chief engineer ashore for a day to visit the pirate bosses, the pirates gathered their weapons, piled into their speedboats and abandoned both the Semlow and the Ibn Batuta. The WFP says it didn't pay any ransom, but Kudrati told TIME that his shipping company handed over $135,000. "In the end we had to give in to them," he says...
...Jianguo remembers the day he learned what his wealth might cost him. The multimillionaire owner of a Chinese herbal-medicine company, Li was living in Hainan in the early 1990s when a kidnapper snatched his friend's young son from school and demanded $400,000 in ransom. Police rescued the boy, but not before revealing that the kidnapper had been a close friend of both men. Li says he "realized then that as soon as a Chinese person discloses his wealth, danger is waiting." Today he refrains from inviting friends to his opulent Beijing villa, keeps his net worth...
...employee who taped his eyes shut before garroting him with a rope. Other prominent abductees have included Chinese movie star Wu Ruofu and Jiang Yingwu, a regional manager of a popular chain of hot pot restaurants, who was killed by his kidnappers in 2004 even after they received a ransom...